Summer means a lot of things: hot weather, long nights and loud cicadas. And those noisy insects seem to be turning ... larger cicadas can produce sounds of up to 120 decibels – the same ...

The sounds vary widely, and some species are more musical than others. Though cicada noises may sound alike to humans, the insects use different calls to express alarm or attract mates.

cicada invasionblanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie ... wave and is coming back down," Jennifer Rydzewski, an insect ecologist at DuPage County Forest Preserve, said ...

The sound is cicadas. Cicadas are a super family of insects that appear each spring. The nymphs have lived underground for 13-17 years and now this time they are hatching. 'Although to some ...

The University of Sydney’s Professor David Emery, who has dedicated his career to researching cicadas, said the insect’s explosion ... however the constant, sound can have an impact on ...

The moment you exit your car in front of the Lake Geneva Public Library, the sound ... dead cicadas, as well as crunchy cicada carcasses, litter the ground. The sour stench of rotting insects ...

Based on data from Brood XIV's last emergence in 2008, Cicada Mania predicts the insects will ... will repeat itself night after night for about two weeks, with the sound getting louder as more ...